When Jordan left LiveSmart 360 is unclear but it was presumably before the launch of Valentus (LiveSmart 360 itself recently collapsed).

Read on for a full review of the Valentus MLM business opportunity.

The Valentus Product Line

Valentus market a range of what they call “functional beverages”;

With the Prevail line of functional beverages, people all over the world are experiencing a new kind of health and vitality.

Formulated with purest natural ingredients from some of the most pristine locations on the planet, we pride ourselves not only on creating product that get results, but on creating products that are good for your body.

The two most pressing issues within the Valentus compensation plan are autoship recruitment, intertwined elements of “pay to play” .

Autoship is required for five out of the seven offered compensation plan components, with obvious incentives to sign up as a Business Builder and recruit others who do the same.

Those incentives come by way of Legacy Enrollment Bonus, which is basically a vehicle for autoship chain recruitment. And the Enrollment Pool Bonus isn’t too far behind.

Pay to play is evident in Valentus’ affiliate membership options, with affiliates able to purchase ranks that directly effect their commission payouts.

This alone is a core compliance issue within Valentus’ compensation plan.

At the end of the day an MLM opportunity needs to reward affiliates based on sales performance, with a healthy amount of that being retail sales.

Valentus instead demands affiliates sign up for autoship and recruit others who do the same, with retail able to be ignored completely.

Retail sales volume commission qualifiers would go some way to encourage retail, however the pay to play aspects of the compensation would still need to be reworked. Ditto recruitment commissions and autoship requirements.

The only retail incentive I found in Valentus pertained to existing preferred customers (non-affiliates):

Valentus is a great company with unique products that work. Just like any MLM company, the focus is on recruitment but that doesn’t make it a company to “Approach with caution.”

The company provides a 100% money back guarantee within 30 days which is more than fair. All 4 products at this time are the same price.

Preferred customers or those not interested in the business side can get the products each month without paying the one time $20 fee to join as a distributor which is less than most companies that have annual fees for their websites.

Valentus allows the enroller gets one free product with only 2 preferred customers on autoship. Many companies use the “3 for free” plan.

There are 7 websites included free with an autoresponders series of follow up emails which is unique with no extra cost.

There are also 2 sites for purchasing retail only without signing up as a distributor.

The CEO Dave Jordan is a class leader and has the best reputation in the industry. Do your due diligence as always.

Valentus is NOT Vemma. We tell folks to continue their education, keep their jobs and to work their Valentus business part time. But with a full timers attitude.

In most every MLM focused on retailing you usually purchase a pack. In Valentus you are not buying your way into a position or rank you are purchasing 16 boxes of product to retail and consume and to use for sampling new potential customer. Each box has 24 sticks so 3 boxes are a months supply and easily consumed or retailed.

For example our incredible Slim Roast is up to two sticks a day so a person who is in the business can drink some #60 sticks of coffee a month while having 12 of the total #72 to sample #12 new customer prospects.

You can purchase product as a distributor for $59.95 one box and retail that box for $74.95. I can find people who would pay $300 !! Just to lose 8-12 lbs. In a month! And/or inches as one box achieves incredible results for everyone who drinks the Valentus powdered stick drink products.

I know most of these people where Valentus Slim Roast coffee changed their life! Anyone who purchases the business builder pack does so as the cost per box is cheaper wholesale per box than the smaller packs.

At $31 per box distributor cost for the business builder pack, each to be retailed at $74.95 is a great retail profit! Verses $33, $43 and $59 per box/boxes in the other 3 smaller packs.

At $499 the 16 box order is a great start to a strong retail business!! I was able to sell some 12 boxes at the retail price to people I meet on a daily business. I used other product for sampling and for consumption. I sold over 70% of my inventory retail! Easily!

Everybody drinks coffee and everybody wants to lose weight. So each individual can retail however many boxes they desire.

In my personal experience with Valentus a majority of folks easily retail more than half the boxes at retail and even more boxes are used as part of the business to mail out for samples to get more customers. So there is a huge retail profit and strong emphasis on retail.

Slim Roast is probably the most easily retailed product I’ve worked with in decades. Just last week I had five preferred customers sign up through my customer and distributor websites while having enrolled two others as distributors. So my numbers for the week? 5 preferred customers and two others who purchased the business builder pack.

We are not selling juice cans full of colorants, flavorants, preservatives, or additives. We are signing up customers in droves as you know a majority of people are leary of MLM but they certainly would love to drink coffee without diet changes and lose weight and inches!

Many of my customers upgrade to the smaller distributor packs before they realize they need a business builder pack as demand is massive due to the results.

I recommend a box as a customer. What have you got to lose? Weight?!!! Best retailing product in industry in decades in Slim Roast Coffee and the Valentus Prevail Energy.

There are 3 individual retail and customer acquisition oriented sites that distributors are placing where they desire on the internet and forwarding to their contacts.

Only one site is dedicated to enrolling someone as a distributor to earn income. Another site is dedicated to getting folks to purchase a business builder pack of coffee for retail.

So just having reviewed one distributor site is very misleading in your analysis. Maybe you should review the site I list along with the five other sites that distributors use in their back office distributors use in getting retail and preferred customers.

You seem to have unfairly misrepresented Valentus’retail and customer oriented focus.

My first 16 boxes which is a price of $499 well under attorney general guidelines for starting a home business across the USA is very reasonable. That’s roughly $1.41 a stick. And I can teach folks how to get their coffee stick at .077 per stick through commissions earnings so their retail profit is higher!

In most every MLM focused on retailing you usually purchase a pack. In Valentus you are not buying your way into a position or rank you are purchasing 16 boxes of product to retail and consume and to use for sampling new potential customer.

Rick Jerrells: In most every MLM focused on retailing you usually purchase a pack.In Valentus you are not buying your way into a position or rank you are purchasing 16 boxes of product to retail and consume and to use for sampling new potential customer.

And you don’t see the contradiction in that? That instead of SELLING (retailing) your first act is BUYING?

And do you recall Herbalife and Vemma’s sales speech? What was that Vemma slogan again… “2pak, one to drink and one to share”?

You haven’t sold anything… Yet you’ve made your upline money.

YOU are the consumer. Stop lying to yourself. Don’t use other people’s shady tactics to justify yet more shady tactics.